Just a quick note of thanks to Charles here... Just loaded on your build, and it's quite awesome. I know it's not ALL your work, but I really appreciate having everything I need in one up-to-date build, tailored for the e200. It works like a dream and has made my player worth having! Thanks a ton, and keep up the fantastic work!

Just installed the newest build last night, and so far haven't had any of the lockups during the backlight fadeout that I was having with the one from Saturday. Fingers crossed, but so far so good. Thanks for all you do with this, I am really enjoying this thing.

That way, I can use it at night easily and I know it will shut itself off if I forget. Sometimes when we're going to bed, I put on some music...and...then...well....well....I just want to be sure it will shut itself off if for some reason it might slip my mind.

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Originally Posted by cpchan

No, why would you want to do that? If you really want it, you can submit a feature request at the Rockbox site.

i updated from 07-07-13 directly to 07-08-18.
and discovered that i have a massive power draining issue with that release:

yesterday after the update i still had 50% battery left (before connecting the usb for the update).
i updated and used the same settings as before, normally 50% would last between 2 and 5 hours depending on backlight usage and volume.

but this time the 50% only lasted for 45 minutes(!).
after 45 minutes the sansa did shut down and i could not turn it on again because of low battery.

this morning after fully charging the battery, it went down 15% in about half an hour.
usage did not change.

could it be that something in rockbox is draining power in the latest release?

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and using the OF for 30 minutes afterwards only got it down about 5%.

Scrolling has been this slow ever since frequency scaling has been enabled. When running at 30Mhz the CPU is just not fast enough to allow smooth scrolling. It becomes more responsive and smooth when playback is running because then the CPU is not running at slow speed all the time. However when you scroll around too much it will become slow again because playback needs to rebuffer.

It's kind of a tradeoff because boosting the CPU during scrolling would of course decrease battery life. But I'm not content with the current solution either.

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i have a massive power draining issue with that release

Can somebody confirm this? I don't use my player much right now and I wouldn't want to have a bad surprise while I'm on the go.

Vortex: Please don't claim that scrolling is slow for everyone. Many of us do not experience this, at least with official builds, and you've tried to pass this off as fact in our forums too.

During a good portion of music playback, the CPU is at 30mhz (it's not boosted all the time) so if you were experiencing slowdown because of CPU scaling, you would have very, very, VERY slow scrolling often during playback. Buffering would actually be somewhat faster than unboosted scrolling outside playback or MUCH faster than unboosted scrolling during playback, because the CPU always boosts during buffering.

Please don't claim that scrolling is slow for everyone. Many of us do not experience this, at least with official builds, and you've tried to pass this off as fact in our forums too.

Sorry about that but I thought that it was this slow for everyone and I was just particularly concerned about it.
So did you notice only a minor difference when you switched from an old build without frequency scaling to a newer one that has frequency scaling enabled?
Because I noticed a huge difference. Scrolling is really no fun right now on my Sansa and that's not an issue of cpchan's build. I was using the official build for several weeks, but I recently switched back - mainly because of the Mpegplayer patch.

And concerning the power draining issues: I just let my Sansa run for about two hours and the battery level went down from ~76% to 68%. I can't say for sure but t doesn't seem to drain more power than before.
I would have to run a complete test again, recharge the battery and then let it run completely dry.

One more thing: Just now my Sansa's backlight would not turn. It just didn't react to any button presses (and I'm sure HOLD was off). I had to hold the power button to turn it off. Has anyone else had this problem?

Scrolling wheelCan't say that it is SLOW. I use it quite well and find it OK. Use setup settings of Scroll Wheel: SPEED 10, SCROLL START DELAY 800ms, SCROLL STEP SIZE 6px, BIDIRECTIONAL SCROLL LIMIT 25%, SCREEN SCROLL STEP SIZE 16 pxBattery lifeAlso cannot confirm, that Rockbox is extremly hunger for power. Yes, it do drain more power than the OF. But not so much. I guess, maybe someone should take a look at your running tests, guys.
I use Rockbox for playing games - about an hour per day, reading books 2-3 h/day and music - up to 4-6 h/day. I've powered up my Sansa (e260) a lil bit yesterday at 1700, so I'll run it without charging and say, for how long it can stand in such conditions as described higher.FontsThanks, Charles. No more bugs with fonts.BugsSometimes my player is hanging. It was earlier too, but now it hangs hard so I need to reboot it. And it hangs often enough to bother me